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  "text": "(1) Where a postal voters' ballot box has been opened, the returning officer shall count and note the number of covering envelopes, and shall then open each covering envelope separately.\n(2) Where a covering envelope does not contain both a declaration of identity and a ballot paper envelope or, there being no ballot paper envelope, a ballot paper, or contains more than one ballot paper (whether in an envelope or not), he shall mark the covering envelope “rejected”, attach thereto the contents (if any) of the covering envelope and place it in a separate receptacle (hereinafter referred to as “the receptacle for votes rejected”); and if the covering envelope does not contain the declaration separately, the returning officer shall open the ballot paper envelope to ascertain if the declaration is inside that envelope.\n(3) On opening a covering envelope, other than one to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, he shall first satisfy himself that the declaration of identity has been duly signed and authenticated and, if he is not so satisfied, he shall mark the declaration “rejected”, attach thereto the ballot paper envelope or, if there is no such envelope, the ballot paper, and place it in the receptacle for votes rejected:\nProvided that before so doing he shall show the declaration to the agents and, if any objection is made by any agent to his decision, he shall add the words “rejection objected to”.\n(4) Where the number on the declaration of identity duly signed and authenticated agrees with the number on the ballot paper envelope, he shall place the declaration in a separate receptacle (hereinafter referred to as “the receptacle for declarations of identity”) and the ballot envelope in another separate receptacle (hereinafter referred to as “the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes”).\n(5) Where there is no ballot paper envelope or the ballot paper envelope has been opened under sub-paragraph (2), he shall—\n(a) where the number on the declaration of identity duly signed and authenticated agrees with the number on the ballot paper, place the declaration in the receptacle for declarations of identity and the ballot paper in a ballot box previously shown open and empty to the agents present and locked by the returning officer and sealed with the seal of the returning officer and the seals of such of the agents as desire to affix their seals in such manner as to prevent its being opened without breaking the seal which shall be subsequently treated as a ballot box for the purpose of rule 45 of the elections rules;\n(b) where the number on the said declaration does not agree with the number on the ballot paper, mark the declaration “rejected”, attach thereto the ballot paper and place it in the receptacle for votes rejected.\n(6) Where the number on the declaration of identity duly signed and authenticated does not agree with the number on the ballot paper envelope or that envelope has no number on it, he shall open the envelope and shall—\n(a) where the number on the declaration agrees with the number on the ballot paper, place the declaration in the receptacle for declarations of identity and the ballot paper in the ballot box referred to in sub-paragraph (5);\n(b) where the number on the declaration does not agree with the number on the ballot paper or there is no ballot paper, mark the declaration “rejected”, attach thereto the ballot paper (if any) and place it in the receptacle for votes rejected.\n(7) Except for the purposes of ascertaining under sub-paragraph (2) whether a ballot paper envelope contains a declaration of identity or, where there is more than one ballot paper envelope, a ballot paper or under sub-paragraph (6) whether the number on the declaration agrees with the number on the ballot paper, the returning officer shall not open the ballot paper envelopes before they are opened under paragraph 17.",
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